Dive Brief:

• Grinnell College and the University of Iowa will use a $1.6 million grant to fund a four-year collaborative effort in humanities research.
• Under the partnership, graduate and undergraduate students, faculty members, librarians, and technology staff will use digital resources aimed at improving research and teaching in humanities, Inside Higher Ed reported.
• The university is touting the arrangement as the first time the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded such a partnership between a private liberal arts college and a public research university.

Dive Insight:

The partnership makes sense financially, especially for Grinnell, which can take advantage of the resources and capabilities of a larger higher education institution. The Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry grant will pay for the development of faculty and curriculum, and for initiatives for library and IT staffers. Among the projects, the two schools will work together on mapping social networks in Shakespeare and developing a reader’s guide to "Ulysses," by James Joyce.